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adj. - Emerging or flowing forth from a source.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Ab hac morbi sponte saepe emanant, nulla alia cogente causa.
  • Either would imply something of it remaining there while the emanant is elsewhere: thus separated from what has gone forth, it would experience local division.
  • Those ascribing Intellection to the First have not supposed him to know the lesser, the emanant — though, indeed, some have thought it impossible that he should not know...
  • Further, a vestigial cut off from its source disappears — for example, a reflected light — and in general an emanant loses its quality once it is severed from the...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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